"Möwennest" (Seagull's Nest) BORKUM

[satire63]

Hello, I wonder if anyone could help me. I am looking for anybody that might have been at "Möwennest" (Seagull's Nest), Borkum. Or if there's anybody on here that might know about it and how I might be able to get information?

[Hans1906]

In 1948, he and his wife, a pediatric nurse, leased a plot of land with a house on the North Sea island of Borkum. In this house, which he later bought, he ran the Mövennest children's spa and children's home for years, where children were bullied and tortured. He also served as a medical officer on Borkum,[6] among other positions, as well as chief physician of the Borkum City Hospital. In mid-May 1960, he was unmasked and was remanded in custody in Aurich.

Source: Werner Scheu https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Scheu

Link 1 https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ ... e-101.html
Link 2 https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-war-criminal ... a-54518440

Video 1 https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/repor ... GIxMThmMA/
Video 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW24BaiLz8A


Hans

[Hans1906]

One personal note is allowed me please.

Child abuse and maltreatment in these German children's homes (Kinderheim) were not yet an issue in the first decades after 1945.
It was not until around the mid-1980s that some former victims came forward with their own experiences and memories.
After that, there were newspaper articles, first books, etc.

It was only later that the Internet gradually broke all the suffering. In further books, TV documentaries, and also some feature films.
Today, a very complex topic in the German public and also the media.
Most victims will remain silent for the rest of their lives, out of shame.

As a still young boy in the 1960s, I was affected by this issue myself, as one of the many victims.
I have written about it quite a bit on the Internet, in German, but in this forum I would like to please not write about it further. Here is not the right place for all this.


Hans

P.S. I still consider this conversation meaningful, and also important.
Alptraum Kinderheim: Sexueller Missbrauch und Misshandlungen / Nightmare children's home: sexual abuse and maltreatment

[Debby]

My Grandfather is Ernst Hunze who was the builder of the Heimlich Liebe in Borkum and voice to the ships. He was the mayor of that island. Any info you have regarding any of this is of interest to me. I spent much of my childhood there as well.